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Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both. ↗

— C. Wright Mills

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The history of the Erie Railroad ever since 1901 has been a record of progress. ↗

— John Moody

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The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments. ↗

— William James

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We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

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I don't know the history of my sport. I'm not like those people who know everything. ↗

— Usain Bolt

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It was critical to finding a way out. I had assumed young women knew the history of feminism and must have felt gratitude to the movement for the opportunities that the work we have done has afforded them. ↗

— Betty Buckley

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The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things. ↗

— Richard Cecil

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No country in the history of the world has ever contributed more to humankind and accomplished more for its people in so brief a period of time as Israel has done since its relatively recent rebirth in 1948. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

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Wherever you go in the history of America, there have been Black people making contributions, but their contributions have been obscured, lost, buried. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

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The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public. ↗

— Paul Gauguin

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